[Peace-discuss] Re: Paul Kotheimer

[Stuart Levy]

> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 17:14:24 -0500
> From: "John Bambenek" <jcb.blog at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: Paul Kotheimer
> To: "Wendy Edwards" <wedwards at uiuc.edu>
> Cc: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net, Brian Dolinar
> 	<briandolinar at gmail.com>
> 
> Read the Academic Staff handbook, for one. It's clear there. That's a
> much less invidious violation than the one that's currently at hand.
> 
> The incident was reported quietly and privately. He's now violated 5
> ILCS 430/15-5

Though IANAL, dunno about that.  I think Wendy is right.  Look at the
definition of "Political", as in prohibited political activity,
in the section you're citing, at e.g. page 5 of
    http://www.ilga.gov/commission/lac/PurchasingLaws.pdf
It specifically
   "does not include activities (i) relating to the support or
    opposition of any executive, legislative, or administrative action
    (as those terms are defined in Section 2 of the Lobbyist Registration Act)"
    [or a couple other exceptions which don't apply here]

Note too, re the original topic, that a long-standing violation of
privacy is no less egregious than a recent one.  If anything it's more.
And, for heaven's sake, an overlay pointing to a child, identified or not,
reading "Hit Me"?  That's more than bad taste.  Sounds like incitement.

   Stuart